Joseph Earl Dinler

Joseph Earl Dinler was the Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan Atlantic County Branch during the early 20th century.

Biography
Joseph Earl Dinler was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey to a family that had originated in Germany, and Dinler was raised in a working-class household. He opened a hardware store and lived a blue-collar life, and Dinler blamed the poverty of white Americans on African-Americans, Jews, immigrants, and anarchists, claiming that African-Americans came up from the American South to take jobs, consigning World War I veterans and "patriots" to bread lines. This rhetoric was believed to have led to the lynching of an African-American man named Kendall, who served as Chalky White's chauffeur. White interrogated Dinler and chopped off one of his fingers, but Dinler maintained his innocence; it was later discovered that the D'Alessio brothers were responsible, not the Klan.